INDOCHINA - LAOS - BAUDENNE (Antonin): A travers le Laos. A - Lot 263

INDOCHINA - LAOS - BAUDENNE (Antonin): A travers le Laos. A guide for travelers. In-4 paperback (cover faded, tear at top of spine). Precious original typescript containing a wealth of valuable information: hunting, local curiosities, climate, details of the population, details of the provinces, their administration, their population, list of post offices and telegraphs with indications of the operations they carry out, navigation on the Mekong with numerous observations, various itineraries, etc.... 59 pages + pages of bibliography. Mostly typescript, but some titles are entirely handwritten. Written in Vientianne (Laos) around 1910/1911. Antonin BAUDENNE was, among other things, editor of the "Revue indochinoise". Married to a Laotian woman, he left several works on this country.